"What? Two or three years? Liang Zhongjia and Han Guangdi exclaimed almost at the same time, and even Li Ruifang suddenly changed color.

"Yes." Song Zhewu nodded affirmatively.

"However, there are more than 300,000 troops in the Northeast Army, and there are only tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Northeast." Liang Zhongjia asked with some suspicion.

"They have a very complete military service system, and they will expand their army very quickly. Moreover, do you think the Northeast Army can withstand the attack of 100,000 Japanese troops? Even if it can withstand it, what about the 200,000? Not to mention the Northeast Army, even the existing strength of our Fourth Route Army cannot defeat the 200,000 Chinese army supported by aircraft and artillery. ”

Don't say 200,000, that is, 100,000 troops, with the strength of the Northeast Army, it may not be able to withstand it, at this time, the combat effectiveness of the army is not worse than that of the Soviet army, this time in the Middle Road War, tens of thousands of Soviet troops on the southern front have beaten Wang Shuchang's second army to defend against Russia, and more than 100,000 troops have lost their cities and lost ground in a row. Thinking of this, Liang Zhongjia and Han Guangdi were full of worries.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Song Zhewu stopped talking and said: "Therefore, we must pretend to oppose Chiang and really help Chiang, only in this way can we help the central government axe to flatten most of the warlord forces in one fell swoop in the shortest possible time, at least so that there will be no major war in North China in a few years, so that we can develop with peace of mind, actively prepare for war, and prepare for resisting the all-out invasion of China by myself." ”

"And we will take this opportunity to seize Shanxi, actively build and develop the economy and our national defense industry, and use Shanxi as our base and rear area for the War of Resistance. I can also tell you that I have been preparing for Shanxi for a long time, and I have been working hard for this even when I was in Tianjin. Song Zhewu continued.

Song Zhewu's words not only made everyone present feel extremely excited, but their eyes were more of a deep admiration for Song Zhewu and their young commander!

A few years ago in Tianjin, the predecessor of the Fourth Route Army was a local security force, with only more than 8,000 people. However, now, their Fourth Route Army is already a huge force that is well-known throughout the country and has more than 400,000 people, and they have not only defeated the troops of the Gui Department and the Northwest Army, which are old and powerful forces in China, but have also completely annihilated more than 40,000 people of the Soviet Red Army.

And all this was achieved by the wisdom and hard work of this young man in front of them. Now that Song Zhewu has more than 400,000 troops as his backing, they will not be surprised if they want to attack Yan Xishan and Shanxi's idea. What surprised them was that this young man began to be determined to bring down Yan Xishan, the "tumbler" in the north, when his strength was still very weak, and he not only had the strength to bring down Yan Xishan now, but he would soon do it. With such a far-sighted young man as a leader, their hearts are steady.

Song Zhewu solemnly accentuated his tone and said: "After occupying Shanxi, from now on, our Fourth Route Army will not participate in any civil war, and we will only fight against foreign enemies. Of course, if someone undermines our environment for peaceful development, then we will not be relentless. ”

"Good! Commander, you give the order, and I will take the lead in attacking Shanxi. Liang Zhongjia stood up abruptly.

Song Zhewu waved his hand and motioned for Liang Zhongjia to sit down and said, "Senior Commander Liang, don't worry, if we just capture Shanxi, we won't have to spend so much effort." ”

Song Zhewu glanced at everyone one by one, and said solemnly: "Now I will tell you the plan to seize Shanxi." The Jin Sui army is known for being good at holding on, and if we attack strongly, the casualties will inevitably be very large, which is not what I want to see. Yan Xishan was already desperate for Chiang Kai-shek, and in the past, when various factions gathered in Taiyuan, Yan Xishan was still left and right, and he did not have a clear anti-Chiang attitude, but just wanted to blackmail Chiang Kai-shek and reap more benefits. However, since Chiang Kai-shek asked He Chengjun and Han Fuyu to kill him in Zhengzhou, Yan Xishan completely made up his mind to oppose Chiang. ”

"My plan is to join Yan Xishan's anti-Chiang camp first, and when the Jin Sui army moves out of Jin, we will suddenly return to Shanxi, and strive to quickly seize the entire territory of Shanxi before the Jin Sui army rushes back to Shanxi, at least we must first absolutely control the area north of Wuxiang, Jiexiu, and Lingshi, once we achieve the campaign goal, Yan Xishan and his Jin Sui army will become rootless duckweed, not to mention the lack of weapons and ammunition, even the food and salary will be unsustainable, defeat is inevitable, it is only a matter of time. Once Yan Xishan goes into the wilderness, his Jin Sui army will face the fate of being reorganized, and the only ones who can absorb them are us and the Central Army. ”

"According to the agreement between me and Chairman Jiang, I will be the chairman of Shanxi Province, which means that Shanxi will be handed over to me, so it is natural for me to take over the remnants of the Jin Sui Army, so that we can smoothly take the entire territory of Shanxi. Once a full-scale war breaks out in China, our Shanxi will be bounded by Taihang Mountain in the east, Luliang Mountain in the west, Heng Mountain and Wutai Mountain in the north, Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, and Zhongyue Mountain in the south, and we will do our best to defend, as long as we have Shanxi, we will hold back the offensive pace of the Yue army in North China and win the victory in the end......

Song Zhewu looked at the dozen or so generals under him who were gearing up, knowing that there was no resistance within his Fourth Route Army to the realization of his plan.

"Have you ever heard of the idiom allusion to the magpie's nest dove? We are turtledoves, and we are going to occupy Yan Xishan's lair. I've asked Chief of Staff Tao to draw up a plan, and the code name of the plan is "Turtledove". In order for our "Turtledove" to be successfully realized, I have to go to Taiyuan. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, although they all think that Song Zhewu should go to Taiyuan, but they are all not worried about Song Zhewu's safety.

After being silent for a while, Xiao Guodong pondered and said: "I support Wen Ge to go to Taiyuan, I think Yan Xishan is just thinking about winning Wen Ge to fight against Jiang with him now, Wen Ge will not be in danger." Even if Yan Xishan was stunned and detained Wen Ge, he would not dare to hurt Wen Ge, if Wen Ge really wanted to have three long and two short, he would be the great enemy of the Fourth Route Army, and our Fourth Route Army would inevitably fall to Chiang Kai-shek, and with our Fourth Route Army and the Central Army together, it would be impossible for his anti-Chiang plan to succeed, and Yan Xishan would not have thought of it. What's more, even if Wenge is detained, we will find a way to get Wenge out. ”

As soon as Xiao Guodong expressed his position, others also expressed their support one after another. Liang Zhongjia was still a little uneasy, thought about it and asked: "Commander, Yan Xishan has been detaining Feng Yuxiang for a few months, Feng Yuxiang and the Northwest Army must hate Yan Xishan to the bone, will he join forces with Yan Xishan to oppose Chiang?" ”

"Yes, definitely." Song Zhewu said with a smile: "It seems that Division Commander Liang doesn't know Feng Yuxiang very well, and our Deputy Chief of Staff Li here is the most vocal." ”

Song Zhewu's words made Li Wentian a little unnatural, and Song Zhewu was no longer embarrassed for him, and said to himself: "Feng Yuxiang's surname is tenacious, and he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal." He knew that Chiang Kai-shek would not let him go, because as long as he was still at ease, the Northwest Army would definitely have a chance to regain its strength. Therefore, Feng Yuxiang will definitely join forces with Yan Xishan to oppose Chiang. Of course, Feng Yuxiang will not absolutely believe Yan Xishan, but the lesser of two evils, Feng Yuxiang must have the idea of driving away Chiang Kai-shek first, and then finding a way to clean up Yan Xishan. As long as Chiang Kai-shek is out of the opposition, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, and Li Zongren will all have the idea of replacing Chiang Kai-shek's military leaders, and as for the political leaders, Wang Jingwei will naturally be the leader. At that time, who could finally get Chiang Kai-shek's position was not only a matter of military strength......"

At the military meeting that lasted until late at night, Song Zhewu finally designated Xiao Guodong to be fully responsible for all matters when he was not in Laiyuan.

persuaded these generals under him, but Song Zhewu couldn't go to Taiyuan immediately, he still had one more important thing that he had to do personally, that is, before he went to Taiyuan, he had to meet those precious talents who came to Laiyuan.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Song Zhewu took Xiao Guodong, the nominal president, to visit more than a dozen aviation experts such as Ba Yuzao and Wang Zhu. These people did not live in the accommodation arranged for them in the city by the research institute, but under the enthusiastic temptation of Wu Jin, they lived with Guo Wenyuan in the base of the Air Force Corps, to be precise, in the maintenance plant in the base, and were installing and debugging the equipment of the newly arrived small maintenance plant with Guo Wenyuan and the technicians sent by Curtis, Guo Wenyuan's students, and technicians.

The maintenance plant was temporarily set up in several huge sheds at Laiyuan Airport, and when Wu Jin brought Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong and others to the sheds, Guo Wenyuan, Ba Yuzao and others were busy nervously. It was very noisy inside the shed, and Song Zhewu didn't want to disturb these "seniors" who were excited about their work, but he couldn't stay here for too long, he still had many people to meet, and he had to go to Shanxi tomorrow.

After obtaining Song Zhewu's consent, Wu Jin ordered people to put several Eight Immortal tables together outside the tent, put tea on the table, and then personally invited Ba Yuzao and other aviation experts.

As soon as Ba Yuzao and the others heard that Song Zhewu wanted to see them, they all happily put down their work and followed Wu in front of Song Zhewu. They all wanted to see this young man who annihilated tens of thousands of Soviet troops, recovered Outer Mongolia in one fell swoop, was hailed as a national hero by the Chinese people, and was praised by Chiang Kai-shek as a contemporary Huo Qu's disease, and was rare, if not unique, in China's current political arena.

All their impressions of Song Zhewu are not only in the newspaper, but also through Wang Zhu's introduction.

Although Wang Zhu had never seen Song Zhewu, his younger brother Wang Dong did, and he specially ran to Mawei to convey Song Zhewu's greetings and invitations. At first, Wang Zhu was still very unconvinced that Song Zhewu wanted to build China's own aircraft and automobile factories, even though Song Zhewu's brother was very rich. Wang Zhu knows that airplanes and automobiles can be said to be the model and integration of advanced technology in this era, and it is even more difficult to scale up with money alone.

There is also a question, that is, the question of how long a small warlord like Song Zhewu can survive, a small warlord like him who has just risen, in the chaotic era when there are many large and small warlords in the country and constantly attacking each other, not to mention the development and growth, it is a miracle to just survive. Therefore, although Wang Zhu did not refuse at that time, he did not agree to Song Zhewu's invitation, he still had to take a look.

During this time, Wang Zhu also lost confidence in the aircraft factory in Mawei, where there was no capital and no equipment, just relying on Ba Yuzao and him, Wang Xiaofeng, Zeng Yijing and other people who came back from abroad to start from scratch and want to buy equipment, which is more than Dengtian. The navy liked the seaplanes they had worked so hard to develop, but they did not have the funds to order a large number of them, and only a few of them could be ordered for one model, and some of them are still prototypes. Disappointed, he applied for a job as the chief engineer of the newly established China Airlines.

In Shanghai, a commercially developed city, Wang Zhu suddenly found that this Song Zhewu is not simple, he still can't feel it in the closed ponytail, but in Shanghai it is different, Song Zhewu's factory production of Xiangxue flour is very popular, the snow-white and delicate flour is better than foreign flour, Xiangxue noodles are a precedent for flour industrial products, sales are also very hot, these two commodities have a lot of exports.

Song Zhewu's factory produces colored cloth and wool textiles, as well as wool and cotton blended clothing, which are not only in short supply in China, but also sell well in Southeast Asia and other places.

If these are all primary and low-level industrial products, then the Xinghua brand dyes produced by Song Zhewu's Xinghua Company are not only low in price, but also good in quality and imported, and are favored by major dyeing factories in Shanghai. During this period, the chemical industry was a very high-tech thing that only Western countries were able to do well, and at this time, China could not even produce matches, and relied on a large number of foreign imports.

However, what excites Wang Zhu the most is the more than a dozen Chinese patent medicines produced by Xinghua Pharmaceutical. Nowadays, the rich and the sick all see Western medicine, and only the common people who cannot afford the high medical expenses do they see Chinese medicine. However, there is a big disadvantage of traditional Chinese medicine is that there is no drug dosage standard, and the prescription prescribed by each doctor, even if it treats the same patient, there will be some slight discrepancies in the dosage of various Chinese herbal medicines, as well as the heat and time of boiling decoction, which is difficult for ordinary people to grasp. But this Chinese patent medicine is different, like Western medicine, there are both tablets and powders, and the dosage is standard, although the hospitals opened by foreigners do not prescribe Chinese patent medicine to patients, but these Chinese patent medicines are sold very well in major pharmacies. They can even produce small quantities of Western medicines like aspirin and 606 shots.

Wang Zhu believes that all this shows that this Song Zhewu is by no means an ordinary "warlord," and that he is a knowledgeable and ambitious "new warlord" who is deeply influenced by science and technology to save the country and industry to save the country. Although Wang Zhu left Boeing in a fit of anger, and even left Mawei because of helplessness and sadness, he still couldn't give up the plane plot in his heart, and they could only use limited funds to develop seaplanes in Mawei, and there was no money to build other planes. Since this Song Zhewu is so bold, why not give it a try? Maybe he can really make a career out there?

However, it was his friend Ba Yuzao who finally made him decide to come to Laiyuan. After Wang moved to Mawei that year, Wang Zhu called Ba Yuzao, who was participating in the second international aviation exhibition in Berlin in Germany, about the incident. Ba Yuzao is a very cautious person, after the exhibition, he went to France, Belgium, Sweden, Britain and other countries to inspect the aviation industry, and after purchasing a batch of machinery and equipment, he did not return to Marseille, France as planned to return to China, but rushed directly from the United Kingdom to the United States, he wanted to see for himself the strength of this Song Zhewu's brother.

After Ba Yuzao returned to Shanghai from the United States, it happened that Song Zhewu's letter of invitation to Wang Zhu also arrived, and after discussing with Wang Zhu, Ba Yuzao immediately rushed back to Mawei and resigned after handing over the task.

Song Zhewu first warmly welcomed them to join the Aviation Research Institute of the Fourth Route Army, and under the introduction of Ba Yuzao and Wang Zhu, he shook hands with everyone one by one and asked for warmth. Song Zhewu did this, without a trace of action, everything he did came from his heart, and he sincerely welcomed the arrival of these "hopes" of China's aviation industry. Then, after the appointment of them was read out by Xiao Guodong. Song Zhewu warmly invited them to sit down and poured tea for each of them with his own hands.

These people are all of the rank of specialists, and the worst rank is also lieutenant colonel, and the salary of a lieutenant colonel is already higher than that of working abroad. It's just that most people don't attach much importance to official positions, but this shows that Song Zhewu attaches great importance to them.

After Song Zhewu sat down, Ba Yuzao stood up, raised his teacup and said to Song Zhewu: "The commander gathers and annihilates the Soviet army, recovers Outer Mongolia, so that our country will not be lost, and the Mongolian people will not be separated. ”

Ba Yuzao is a Mongolian, when Outer Mongolia was instigated by Soviet Russia to make a fuss, so that Inner and Outer Mongolia belonged to the two countries, he was very resentful, and even wrote to the Beiyang political axe to ask for troops to quell the rebellion, Song Zhewu recovered Outer Mongolia this time, Ba Yuzao is really grateful.

Song Zhewu also hurriedly stood up, and said with a modest smile: "As a descendant of the Chinese nation, it is Zhewu's duty to recover the land and maintain the unity of the country. ”

"Well said the commander! This is indeed the duty of the descendants of the Chinese nation, but there are so many people who should do their duty! Only the commander did it, and the commander naturally deserved the admiration of Yuzao. After speaking, Ba Yuzao and Song Zhewu looked at each other and smiled, and they both took a sip of tea and sat down.

For Ba Yuzao mentioned that he annihilated the Soviet army to recover Outer Mongolia, although Song Zhewu did not express it excessively on his face, he was very happy in his heart, these are the two most proud things since he crossed, almost all the college and middle school students who recently joined his Fourth Route Army are for these two things to vote for his Fourth Route Army, Ba Yuzao, Wang Zhu and other senior intellectuals are even more so, they pay more attention to resisting foreign exile and revitalizing the nation.

(To be continued)